At this time, Zilharang also understood that he had fallen for the Ming army's plan to lure the enemy, and he was annoyed and angry, waving his fist and shouting, "Flatten them!" ”

Although Duoduo felt that the high combat effectiveness of the Ming army was somewhat amazing, he could not stop Zilharang at this time.

The remaining Qing army of more than 2,700 cavalry threw down hundreds of Mongols, led by Prince Zheng Zierharang, Dorobelle Duoduo, and Adali, the king of Dorojun, and shot towards the Ming army like three sharp arrows, like a gust of wind, swept in.

When Wu Sangui saw this scene, he laughed even louder.

From the beginning to the present, he has only dispatched half of the cavalry, and the infantry has never shown up. What he was waiting for was now, to provoke the Qing army and let them kill them, not run away.

Although more than 200 cavalry were killed just now, this is already a rare feat. But Wu Sangui was not satisfied, when he was called him and Liu Jun together, he still thought that Liu Jun was nothing, and he could actually mention it with him. But in a short period of time, Liu Jun had already been appointed as the governor of the country, controlled the soldiers and horses of the four towns, and left him far behind.

Wu Sangui hopes that he can be like Liu Jun, or even surpass him.

How could two hundred Tartars satisfy him?

Ning Yuan's generals were all waiting for Wu Sangui's order.

Wu Sangui looked at the rushing Qing army and raised his right hand slowly.

One of the flag bearers immediately raised a large blue flag and began to tilt forward and wave.

Immediately afterwards, the military band behind Wu Sangui, the drummers began to beat the war drums, and the trumpeters also blew the horns of battle. The drums thundered and the horns were long.

Hundreds of paces away from the dirt hills on both sides of the battle formation, artillery pieces were pushed out, and groups of infantry also removed their weeds and camouflage, and climbed up from the ground.

The Qing cavalry was still whistling. shouted, and rushed towards Wu Sangui frantically.

At this moment, dozens of artillery pieces of various sizes on both sides finally roared.

Hongyi cannon, general cannon, Franc machine cannon, and even mortar cannon, tiger squat cannon, and extermination cannon, Wu Sangui pulled almost all the cannons he could bring.

Although the various cannons are very messy. But the momentum of a hundred cannons is still extremely spectacular. One cannon after another shot with a sharp whistling sound fired from both sides of the Qing army's charging array towards the dense formation.

Ningyuan Town originally had a lot of artillery, including a lot of Hongyi cannons, and there were not a few Franc machines. Last time, I bought a large number of artillery pieces eliminated by the Chu army from Liu Jun.

These artillery pieces have long been eliminated firearms in the Chu army, but they can be placed here, and they are still quite powerful. Especially when the Qing army did not find these artillery positions at all, when they charged at Wu Sangui's cavalry, the two wings were exposed to these large and small artillery pieces.

A cannon is spewing flames and firing shells.

The artillery roared, and the Qing cavalry was careless. Hit hard again.

From time to time, the cavalry was shot and fell, some people were knocked down with men and horses, and some were directly hit by a big iron ball and thrown out of their horses, and the blood was sprinkled into patches of blood rain, and people turned over on their backs.

However, these cannons were not as good as the new artillery of the Chu army after all, and the gunners in Ningyuan Town were not as good as the gunners of the Chu army, many of their guns had too short range, and they were used to using scattered shells. This reduces the range and reduces the power. And they don't reload fast either. Even a breech-loading gun like the Franc machine is very slow.

After the first round of shelling, the artillery fire behind it began to weaken considerably.

The cavalry of the Qing army was not afraid of death, and although many people died in this round of shelling, they still continued to attack. Moreover, these people reacted very quickly, and soon the three cavalry that charged forward had already tacitly made a change of formation. Zilharan continued to lead his troops forward, while Dordor and Adari each led their own troops to attack the artillery on both flanks.

Faced with an ambush of the Ming army, which was far outnumbered, these Qing troops were undaunted.

"Prepare the firecrackers!"

Because Ningyuan's artillery mostly used scattered bullets, the artillery was placed in front of the formation. When the enemy charged, the musketeers began to be arranged behind the artillery positions. On either side of the artillery and the gunners, there were ordinary infantry formations.

"If you get closer, you won't be able to let go of the gun without an order!"

The officer rode a horse and ran in front of the battle and shouted, "No one is allowed to cut off their heads before the battle, only for the merit of the vicious battle, and those who cut off the rank before the battle will be dealt with by military law!" ”

There are also officers who have been calculating the distance of the enemy cavalry.

"One hundred and fifty steps!"

"One hundred and twenty steps!"

"One hundred steps!"

The deputy general in charge of commanding the left flank has never given the order to launch, and Ning Yuanzhen has also tried and trained for a long time for these firearms, knowing that if he wants to exert his power, it is best to wait until he is sixty paces away before releasing them.

Ningyuan Town itself is a soldier and horse of Liaoxi who has been fighting for many years, and the core is the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Since Wu Sangui was promoted to the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, he has undergone some reorganization, and there is more training and more adequate ordnance and food, so this army is already stronger than many other border armies. When they got the firearms and equipment from Hubei, their combat effectiveness was improved again.

Not only are they better equipped and fed than ordinary border troops, but their morale and will to fight are also far stronger than those of other border troops.

No firing orders were given, and the gunners were on standby without firing.

"Eighty steps!"

Yu Shou hasn't ordered yet.

The sound of the iron hooves of the Qing cavalry horses hitting the ground became louder and louder, like the beating of war drums, and the ground was shaking. That overwhelming momentum was enough to make many recruits collapse.

But under the orders of the officers, although the Ningyuan infantry had dry throats and trembling hands and feet, they did not retreat.

"Sixty steps!" The officer in charge of the distance watcher shouted in a trembling voice.

Yu Shou finally waved his raised right hand fiercely.

The sound of the swan's horn sounded one after another, and for a time the sound of the cavalry's iron hooves was suppressed.

"Put!"

"Put!"

"Put!"

In the firecracker array, the officers' firing orders came and went, and the roars continued to sound. The impatient gunners, who had been waiting for a long time, pulled the trigger on the galloping Qingqi.

Bang bang!

The sound of fried beans sounded endlessly in front of the Ming army, and streams of gunpowder smoke spread in all directions. At this time, the firecrackers no longer had the energy to see their results, and after the first row of gunners had shot, they quickly walked to the rear of the gunners and joined the last row to reload.

As soon as they walked away, the gunners in the second row immediately began to shoot with the guns that had already been loaded. After cumming. They continued to circle to the end of the array and continued to reload.

Rows after rows of gunners formed a continuous barrage of firepower, which rushed out towards the Qing cavalry. This kind of firecracker formation is also the combat method of the Chu army that Wu Sangui spent a lot of money to collect. At the time of training. Wu Sangui had already discovered this formation, and it was very effective.

The artillery in front of the formation was also still firing, and all the guns were replaced with scattered bullets, and pieces of iron sand and lead bullets were sprayed out.

The artillery guns rained down on the Qing cavalry, smashing them down and falling.

The Qing generals who followed the charge in the formation were all a little dazed, and they were frightened by the fierce firepower and heavy casualties.

They couldn't even believe that the army in front of them was Ning Yuanjun, and they and Ning Yuanjun were not opponents for a day or two, when did Ning Yuanjun have such a strong field combat ability?

Before they could get close to the enemy, so many warriors had already fallen.

"Rush over. Rush! ”

The casualties were heavy, but they inspired the fierceness of the Qing people more and more, they did not turn around, did not retreat, and still rushed forward. Past experience told them that the Ming army's battle formations may be tenacious at times, but as long as they rushed closer, the Ming army was no match for them at all. It will soon collapse.

It was only twenty steps away from the Ming army's firearms array on both wings, and it could rush over in an instant.

But at this moment. The war horse that rushed in front suddenly went crazy, and the experienced Qing army immediately discovered the reason for the change, and the cunning southern barbarian actually scattered a lot of thistles in front of the battle, and those iron nails had sharp horns, and the galloping war horses stepped on those thistles, and even the horseshoe could not protect them.

And the Ming army took advantage of the chaos of the war horses. The cannons did not pause at all, and because of the closer distance, the lethality of their cannons increased exponentially, and the Manmeng warriors fell in pieces.

Not to be outdone, the Qing army began to throw Zheng javelins, short spears, and hand axes at the Ming army. Shooting arrows at the Ming army caused a lot of damage to the Ming army.

But the Ming army was more numerous, and their guns were more lethal, and this kind of confrontation soon made the Qing army unable to hold on.

And the hedge between the central cavalry led by Jierharang and the Ningyuan cavalry was also completely at a disadvantage. Although the cavalry of the Eight Banners was braver in cavalry and more fierce in battle, they were wearing heavy armor. But Ningyuan cavalry was more numerous, and they were all equipped with firearms, one person with three guns, and even the generals with four or five guns.

When the two sides were in close combat, those despicable southern barbarians took out a short gun and pointed it at it, and there was no way to avoid it and no way to stop it. In this kind of face-to-face melee combat, you can barely die or be disabled.

After fighting for a long time, Zilharang found that his command was missing more than 100 horsemen.

Looking at the two flanks behind, they suffered heavy losses, but they were still blocked by the spearmen and shield soldiers of the Ming army behind the artillery firearm array, and it was difficult to make progress.

Zilharang's throat was dry, and for the first time he felt boundless fear, and if he continued to fight like this, he was afraid that his three thousand horsemen would have to be confessed here.

On this open battlefield, in this morning, the knights of the Eight Banners had fallen too much, and the corpses of men and horses were piled up layer by layer, and blood soaked this wilderness.

The Qing army's charging force weakened, and in the face of Ningyuan Town's new tactics, in the face of those sharp guns, it was simply difficult for them to move forward.

There was a river of blood and a mountain of corpses.

The tenacity of Ning Yuan's army was far beyond their expectations, and Ning Yuan's army also killed many people, but they showed no signs of retreating.

Zilharang's eyes were red, and he commanded the horses, allowing the warriors to continue to charge forward and break through the array of the Ming army.

However, their onslaught was repulsed, and the Ming army on the battlefield far outnumbered them, and they were stubbornly willed, which was almost the same as the Ming army they had encountered before.

Zilharang was still charging and killing in the front, but the Qing troops on both flanks were the first to resist, and the damage of the guns was too ruthless, and the two parts suffered heavy casualties. They began to retreat, at first only slowly, but soon, the entire wing was shaken, like a river bursting its banks and a snow-capped mountain collapsing, and suddenly the Qing cavalry turned their horses and began to gallop for their lives.

It's like a flood that breaks its embankment, rushing in all directions.

The collapse of the two wings made the Qing cavalry in front of him have to be helplessly defeated, and Zilharang was hugged by his subordinates and fled, while looking back, looking at the red flag fluttering in the morning sun, extremely suffocating and unwilling.

The Three Thousand Eight Banners warriors of the Great Qing Dynasty were defeated by the 20,000 Ming Army, this shouldn't be, this shouldn't be!

Wu Sangui led Ningyuan's cavalry to pursue ten miles away, and watched the defeated Qing army retreat into Rufeng Mountain before retreating. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the reward from the fourth youngest of the Feng family, thank you brother!